Rachel Lindsay on Regenerative Design (#49)
From The Plantastic Podcast by Jared Barnes
January 6, 2026 · 1h 7m · Episode 49
About this episode
Jared Barnes interviews Rachel Lindsay about regenerative design and its impact on soil health and ecological systems.
In this month's episode of The Plantastic Podcast, I interview Rachel Lindsay of Regenerative Design Group to discuss how to create productive, resilient landscapes. We dive deep into the Massachusetts Healthy Soils Guide, a wonderful resource that Rachel helped develop and how it's changing the way practitioners approach soil health from the ground up. Rachel shares how ecological design goes beyond plants to integrate soil, water, wildlife, and human needs into one holistic system. We discuss the power of observation as the foundation of good design, why worker-owned cooperatives are a useful approach in the design industry, and how permaculture principles can scale from residential gardens to large conservation projects. Rachel also shares about the magic of identifying dragonflies with her three-year-old and why getting people outside to notice jewelweed for the first time is how we propagate more plant people.
People in this episode
Host: Jared Barnes
Guest: Rachel Lindsay
Topics covered
- regenerative design
- soil health
- ecological design
- permaculture
- landscape resilience
Keywords
- regenerative design
- soil health
- ecological design
- permaculture
- landscapes
- dragonflies
- jewelweed
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Regenerative Design Group
Books & works: Massachusetts Healthy Soils Guide
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